It's Sedimentary, My Dear: A Geology Podcast - Episode 7: Missouri Geology Field Trip - Beer, Blues, and Elephant Rocks

Episode 7: Missouri Geology Field Trip - Beer, Blues, and Elephant Rocks

11/26/20 • 63 min

It's Sedimentary, My Dear: A Geology Podcast

Jane interrupts our scheduled discussion of tsunamis to take us on a Magic Schoolbus-like field trip to Missouri’s Elephant Rocks State Park. Along the way we learn a bit about Missouri’s history, and culture (mort importantly the three Bs of St. Louis: Beer, Blues, and Barbeque). We also learn cool stuff about the geology of this Gateway to the West state. Granite domes & tors abound! And in the immortal words of Miss Frizzle, “Seatbelts, everyone!”

Our sources for this episode are:

Process geomorphology (5th ed.), Ritter, Kochel, & Miller.

Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (9th ed.), by Tarbuck & Lutgens

The Missouri State Parks page for elephant rocks state park: https://mostateparks.com/park/elephant-rocks-state-park

Field Trip No. 6: Rapakivi Granites and Related Rocks in the St. Francois Mountains Southeast Missouri by Kisvarsanyi and Hebrank

Geologic Wonders and Curiosities of Missouri, 2nd ed, revised by Vineyard

Music for It’s Sedimentary, My Dear is provided by Solar Sleighs.

Our sources for this episode are:

Process geomorphology (5th ed.), Ritter, Kochel, & Miller.

Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (9th ed.), by Tarbuck & Lutgens

The Missouri State Parks page for elephant rocks state park: https://mostateparks.com/park/elephant-rocks-state-park

Field Trip No. 6: Rapakivi Granites and Related Rocks in the St. Francois Mountains Southeast Missouri by Kisvarsanyi and Hebrank

Geologic Wonders and Curiosities of Missouri, 2nd ed, revised by Vineyard

Music for It’s Sedimentary, My Dear is provided by Solar Sleighs.

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Episode 6: Earthquakes — Shimmy Shaken, Not Stirred

So you think you’ve got problems... imagine what happens when the earth’s crust is under stress and strain. Learn about the forces that cause earthquakes, and how structural geologists measure them. This episode is guaranteed to give you the shimmy shakes. (Guarantee not legally enforceable, but it’s still pretty cool.)

Our main source for this episode is Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (9th ed.), by Tarbuck & Lutgens

Music for It’s Sedimentary, My Dear is provided by Solar Sleighs.

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Episode 8: Tsunamis

What’s big and deadly, and travels faster than a jet plane? It’s a tsunami. Hosts Jane and Ellen explain how ocean waves become tsunamis. They talk about the basic properties of waves, and the differences between tidal waves and tsunamis. They also talk about some famous tsunamis. (Spoiler alert - don’t expect a happy ending.)

Sources:

Introduction to Oceanology by Paul Webb, offered online by Roger Williams University
https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/chapter-10-waves/

Japan Revives a Sea Barrier That Failed to Hold by Norimitsu Onishi for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/world/asia/japan-revives-a-sea-barrier-that-failed-to-hold.html

Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 by Kenneth Pletcher for Encyclopedia Brittanica Online
https://www.britannica.com/event/Japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-of-2011

Tsunami alert twitter feeds from the US National Weather Service:

https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC

https://twitter.com/NWS_PTWC

Music for It’s Sedimentary, My Dear is provided by Solar Sleighs.